From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 14 16:34:48 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LidNQ-0007WM-BO for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:34:48 -0700 Received: from ec2-174-129-135-235.compute-1.amazonaws.com ([174.129.135.235] helo=ec2-www1.lojban.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LidNN-0007VW-VE for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:34:48 -0700 Received: from www-data by ec2-www1.lojban.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LidNI-00074m-4e for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:34:40 +0000 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Newbie questions X-PHP-Script: www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-view_forum.php for 24.154.82.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "robert" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:34:40 +0000 X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 15365 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojban-out@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Newbie questions Author: robert Hi all, I'm a total n00b to Lojban, so I apologize in advance for any questions inappropriate to this forum. The reason I'm posting here instead of the "Beginners Mailing List" is that the link to that list appears to be broken in the wiki (see the link on this page: [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Lojbanic+Forums&bl=y]). And speaking of broken links... the link to the dictionary lb.pdf appears to be broken on this page: [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Books] Anyway, here's my main subject. I've put together some simple sentences, thus: la frans. gugde. la .italias. gugde. la paris. tcadu. la romas. tcadu. la paris. tcadu zo'e la frans. la romas. tcadu zo'e la .italias. la paris. joi la marseis. tcadu zo'e la frans. la frans. nenri la .iurop. la .italias. nenri la .iurop. Q1: Did I use gugde, tcadu, and nenri correctly? Q2: Are there universally accepted city, country, and other political grouping names? For cities and countries I tried to use the native pronunciation, and for "Europe" I used English because (at least according to Wikipedia) English is the most known language in the EU. Q3: Does Lojban really just run all the sentences together? Is there any accepted practice to make the sentences more visually separated and yet still look like a continuous narrative? Q3a: When parsing .... la paris. tcadu. la romas. tcadu. .... is backtracking expected upon hitting the second "tcadu" so that "la paris. tcadu. la romas." is not interpreted as "Paris is a city of metropolitan area Rome"? (also, "la romas. tcadu zo'e la .italias. la paris. ...": Rome is a city in Italy serving the region of Paris... oh wait.) Thanks for your attention, and again I apologize for the newbness. --Robert (la rab,rt.) To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.